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WICB offers to meet with Gayle to end standoff

Jun 24, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on WICB offers to meet with Gayle to end standoff

The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has written to Chris Gayle, stating it remains available to meet and resolve the latest impasse over his exclusion from the national team. Gayle wasn’t...

Kares Engineering tapeball cricket tourney registration close Sunday

Jun 24, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Kares Engineering tapeball cricket tourney registration close Sunday

– Over 800 teams registered The forms are in, the grouping stage has begun and all that remains is to … play for the glory. The Kares Ten10 Tapeball Tournament registration deadline is set...

Digicel football rolls on

Jun 24, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Digicel football rolls on

Guyana Educational Institute, New Campbellville Secondary, Tucville and New Amsterdam Technical Institute were among the latest winners as play in the inaugural Digicel-sponsored Nationwide Schools...

Top chess players in action as Chess Federation stages rapid chess tournament tourney

Jun 24, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Top chess players in action as Chess Federation stages rapid chess tournament tourney

The cream of the crop will battle for top honours when the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) presents a one-day rapid tournament at the KEI-SHAR’S Sports Club, 1 Hadfield St. Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown...

Questions galore in June ProAm Boxing card tonight

Jun 24, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Questions galore in June ProAm Boxing card tonight

Can Mark Austin Replicate A Revlon Lake Victory? Asks Michael Benjamin Boxing buffs attempts to employ strategies of rationalization have oft time proven discouraging since like cricket boxing...

National coach promises improved fights from amateur boxers in 15th ProAm card

Jun 24, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on National coach promises improved fights from amateur boxers in 15th ProAm card

When the first bell sounds to signal the start of the amateur segment of the 15th edition of the ProAm boxing cards tonight, boxing fans can be assured of much improved fights, if the prognosis of...

Dellon Harlequin is new Mr. Total Fitness king; Michelle Bowen cops Ms. Best Legs

Jun 24, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Dellon Harlequin is new Mr. Total Fitness king; Michelle Bowen cops Ms. Best Legs

By Franklin Wilson Dellon Harlequin was declared Mr. Total Fitness Mania on Saturday evening last when Fitness Express/Total Fitness Mania 2 came off at the Diamond Community Centre. Harlequin, who...

Windies slump to defeat with almost 5 sessions to spare

Jun 24, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Windies slump to defeat with almost 5 sessions to spare

As India win back-to-back Tests in Jamaica By Sean Devers in Jamaica In association with Digicel, Queensway, Western Union and Jamaica Pegasus Despite a couple of cameos from their tail enders West...

Chanderpaul signs for Warwickshire

Jun 24, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Chanderpaul signs for Warwickshire

Guyanese to depart immediately after India series By Sean Devers in Jamaica Veteran Guyanese left-hander Shiv Chanderpaul will depart the Caribbean immediately after India series next month for...

Audito McCalman is Total Fitness Gym Biggest Loser

Jun 24, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Audito McCalman is Total Fitness Gym Biggest Loser

Total Fitness Gym for the second successive year in an effort to encourage gym members and members of the public to inculcate fitness and healthy living as a positive habit, successfully staged the...

High Court overturns “excessive” $1.2M bail for money borrower

Jun 24, 2011 knews News Comments Off on High Court overturns “excessive” $1.2M bail for money borrower

A Montrose man, placed on $1.2M bail on a fraud charge, had that slashed to $20,000 after his lawyers turned to the High Court claiming that it was excessive. Attorney-at-law, Euclin Gomes of...

A photographic reason why elected dictatorship in Guyana grew

Jun 24, 2011 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on A photographic reason why elected dictatorship in Guyana grew

In another forum, I penned an essay as a response to a letter in both independent dailies titled, “People should speak out against the wrong doings they witness…” signed by Mr. Vidyaratha...

IT COULD HAVE BEEN YOUR KIDS

Jun 24, 2011 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on IT COULD HAVE BEEN YOUR KIDS

By the time this meets the press, it is hoped that the two teenagers who went missing recently at Yarrowkabra, Soesdyke/Linden Highway, would have been found and are reunited with their families....

Third accused refused bail

Jun 24, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Third accused refused bail

In addition to the two persons who were charged in connection with the drug bust at John Fernandes Wharf, last week, and remanded to prison on Monday, Ola Pedro appeared yesterday before Chief...

Buju Banton jailed for 10 years

Jun 24, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Buju Banton jailed for 10 years

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge in Tampa, Florida, sentenced Grammy-winning reggae singer Buju Banton to 10 years in prison yesterday, the lowest sentence legally allowed for his role in a large...

Another cocaine courier busted en route to Suriname

Jun 24, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Another cocaine courier busted en route to Suriname

Police at the border crossing location of Springlands, Berbice, continue to be the thorn in the side of couriers trying to smuggle drugs into the neighbouring Dutch-speaking Republic of Suriname....

Three decades of current account imbalance just got worse

Jun 24, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on Three decades of current account imbalance just got worse

Dear Editor, Recent follow up discussions on how we in the Alliance for Change (AFC) will continue to prepare to correct the economic wrongs being perpetuated by the PPP Government have sharpened our...

Some may take the law into their own hands

Jun 24, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on Some may take the law into their own hands

Dear Editor, The Guyana Police Force never seems to dumbfound me. Wednesday night at 20:56hrs I received a cell call from a friend stating that he had been involved in a vehicular accident at Camp...

Jinnah Ramahan is fossilised

Jun 24, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on Jinnah Ramahan is fossilised

Dear Mr. Editor, In response to Jinnah Rahaman’s letter of June 22, I must say that in all my years of political involvement in Guyana, I have never read such nonsense. But I excuse Rahaman’s...

Supporting a national unity movement

Jun 24, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on Supporting a national unity movement

MR. EDITOR, The JOPP has decided that they will form a partnership for national unity (APNU), to contest the upcoming elections. Already the partnership is being criticized in the media, by comedic...

Freddie wrong on Harbhajan-Symonds racial issue

Jun 24, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on Freddie wrong on Harbhajan-Symonds racial issue

DEAR EDITOR, Reference is made to a comment by Mr. Freddie Kissoon (KN Apr 2, 2011) tying Indian cricketer Harbhajan Singh (affectionately called Bhajji) to “a racist remark against Andrew Symonds,...

The GCB should submit itself to a thorough independent investigation

Jun 24, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on The GCB should submit itself to a thorough independent investigation

DEAR SIR, After reading Chetram Singh’s feeble response to the paid advertisement carried in the Kaieteur News of 17 June 2011, I am of the opinion that the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) should be...

Diversifying for progress

Jun 24, 2011 knews Editorial Comments Off on Diversifying for progress

That the Guyanese economy needs to be diversified is accepted by most commentators. We hope that during the upcoming (or ongoing) political campaign, we will be provided with detailed plans as to how...

Dravid’s ton puts India in charge

Jun 23, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Dravid’s ton puts India in charge

Windies set 326 to win are 131-3 By Sean Devers in Jamaica In association with Digicel, Western Union, Queensway and Jamaica Pegasus For a brief period after Tea yesterday when Adrian Barath and...

Bermuda crowned NAWIRA 15’s champions

Jun 23, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Bermuda crowned NAWIRA 15’s champions

Just as they had promised, Bermuda employed a physical game to overrun Guyana 11-0 in the final of the NAWIRA 15’s Championship which was played last evening at the National Stadium at...

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Golden Jaguars maul Cayman Islands 6-0 to close in on Gold Cup return

Nov 13, 2026

By Rawle Toney (Kaieteur News) – The Golden Jaguars delivered a commanding statement of intent, dismantling the Cayman Islands 6-0 yesterday at the National Track and Field Centre, West Demerara,...

A quick count is not an exit poll!

Nov 13, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – A few days ago, I heard a former APNU+AFC official speaking about the 1992 general elections and repeating the familiar allegation that those elections were rigged. In attempting to discredit the findings of the Carter Center, he referred to its quick count as an exit poll,...

A Divided World: A Commonwealth Opportunity

Nov 01, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – When Commonwealth leaders gather in Antigua and Barbuda from 1st to 4th November, they should address a question that reaches beyond their association: how can countries of different size, wealth and outlook sustain cooperation in a world increasingly...

Chairman Smith-a man to regard

Nov 13, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – I tip my hat to the Barima Commission of Inquiry Chair, Justice Godfrey Smith. This is how real men differentiate themselves. Under duress from the U.S. visa revocation action meted out against him, he offered his resignation. Some of the qualms I had of this Belizean...

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